On Jan 6, 2014, at 12:37, Peter Brommer <[email protected]> wrote:

> I ran into a problem running port upgrade outdated today. Among the packages 
> to be upgraded were libLASi (from 1.1.1_0 to 1.1.1_1) and graphviz (from 
> 2.34.0_1+pangocairo+x11 to 2.34.0_4+pangocairo+x11). However, the port 
> upgrade command chose to execute the upgrade in an unfortunate sequence: 
> First it tried to upgrade graphviz, which failed due to the bug in ticket 
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/41567 - 

That ticket is about libLASi, not graphviz, and was resolved 6 weeks ago.

> when the proper behaviour would have been to upgrade libLASi first. This 
> required a manual intervention, which IMHO is not user friendly.
> 
> Does the port upgrade command have any logic in determining the order of 
> upgrades? Or is this something that needs to be specified on the port file 
> level? In this case, graphviz lib-depends on libLASi, so should port not try 
> upgrading the deps before a package?

It does.


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